The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

Knowing that Blue Peter is a children's program makes this image worse.

There were so many questionable choices in the 1970s.

Don't you dare pick on Puff n Stuff.

[celedhring]

Spain had lots of questionable children programming when I was a kid. Some stuff like "La Bola de Cristal" was actually very weird and very good, but I'm not sure "Viva el mal, viva el capital" (Glory to Evil, glory to Capital) is the kind of song you want kids singing at recess 

Then during my teenage years (1990s) children programming started looking like this:

[The Larch]

Aaah, early Telecinco, when even kid's shows had to feature boobs. 

[Josquius]

Something for the dads. Wahey.

[The Larch]

Something for the dads. Wahey.

Not just for the dads, I'm sure that those days plenty of kids started to feel funny things down there with these shows.

I remember one of the presenters of that period (Beatriz Rico  ) afterwards revealed in an interview that many of the kids they had on the show she presented would touch her bum all the time. She was eventually replaced by a much older woman. 

[celedhring]

For reference:



She went on to have a decent acting TV career, and randomly hates Boris Johnson 

[Josquius]

You win this time Spain.

[Sheilbh]

Spain had lots of questionable children programming when I was a kid. Some stuff like "La Bola de Cristal" was actually very weird and very good, but I'm not sure "Viva el mal, viva el capital" (Glory to Evil, glory to Capital) is the kind of song you want kids singing at recess 

In Scotland we had the Singing Kettle with the slightly ominous song "Ye cannae shove yer grannie aff a bus"

It was because she's your mammie's mammie - but, according to the second verse: "Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus PUSH PUSH"

[The Brain]

We will make the Spaniard promise, if we yield, to let us go
We shall live to stroke again, and to blow another load

[celedhring]

Spain had lots of questionable children programming when I was a kid. Some stuff like "La Bola de Cristal" was actually very weird and very good, but I'm not sure "Viva el mal, viva el capital" (Glory to Evil, glory to Capital) is the kind of song you want kids singing at recess 

In Scotland we had the Singing Kettle with the slightly ominous song "Ye cannae shove yer grannie aff a bus"

It was because she's your mammie's mammie - but, according to the second verse: "Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus PUSH PUSH"

Catalan children programming was far more clean and pruddish. Which is weird given they also showed Dragonball nearly 24/7. Now that's a questionable show 

[The Larch]

For reference:



She went on to have a decent acting TV career, and randomly hates Boris Johnson 

And she's still stunning nowadays, in her early 50s.

[The Larch]

Which is weird given they also showed Dragonball nearly 24/7. Now that's a questionable show 

Yeah, I read somewhere recently that, even if it was iconic back int he day it's very difficult to show it to young people nowadays because broadcasting many of the early episodes is highly problematic.

[The Larch]

You win this time Spain.

It's because she's against Boris Johnson, right? 

[celedhring]

Which is weird given they also showed Dragonball nearly 24/7. Now that's a questionable show 

Yeah, I read somewhere recently that, even if it was iconic back int he day it's very difficult to show it to young people nowadays because broadcasting many of the early episodes is highly problematic.

Yeah, over here there are regular petitions for the Catalan TV to show it again, but it's just too problematic. The latter series (from Dragonball Z onwards) are less reliant on pervying and demeaning women but very high on violence (and some extreme violence at that), which is also an issue. I suppose they would have to show it outside of the protected schedules.

I mean the show was already controversial 20-30 years ago. Imagine today...

[The Larch]

Which is weird given they also showed Dragonball nearly 24/7. Now that's a questionable show 

Yeah, I read somewhere recently that, even if it was iconic back int he day it's very difficult to show it to young people nowadays because broadcasting many of the early episodes is highly problematic.

Yeah, over here there are regular petitions for the Catalan TV to show it again, but it's just too problematic. The latter series (from Dragonball Z onwards) are less reliant on pervying but very high on violence (and some extreme violence at that), which is also an issue. I suppose they would have to show it outside of the protected schedules.

I mean the show was already controversial 20-30 years ago. Imagine today...

Yeah, what I read about the unsuitability of the earlier episodes because of their sexual content and general perviness was also in the context of petitions for the show to be broadcasted again (there's a big push for increased children's content in the regional tv, and the show is iconic because of its massive success in the 90s, it is said that it was one of the main drivers for my generation's fluency in Galician  ).

I think they did plenty of "creative" dubbing back in the day, in order to bypass some of the controversial stuff, and even cut some of the racier stuff from the episodes.